Christopher F. Hoeber is Senior Vice President, Program Management & Systems Engineering at Space Systems/Loral (SS/L).  With more than 35 years of industry experience he leads the systems engineering and program management groups and oversees all of the company’s research and development programs.

Mr. Hoeber has a broad base of experience in systems test and engineering, and program and functional management and was the leader of the systems engineering team that developed SS/L’s industry leading geostationary satellite platform, the modular 1300.  He was also the program manager for the Superbird satellites, built for Space Communications (SCC) of Japan, which were the first implementation of the 1300 platform.

Before being named to his current position, Mr. Hoeber was vice president of business development for SS/L and before that he was chief engineer of the company.

Previous to joining SS/L in 1975, Mr. Hoeber was with Hughes Space and Communications Corp. for five years, where he led a group that performed payload testing of Intelsat IV and the first generation of domestic communications satellites.

Mr. Hoeber is an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). He is also a member of both the AIAA Technical Committee on Communications, and the board of directors of the California Space Authority. He has written extensively on the communications satellite industry and has contributed to a number of studies of export control and technology transfer. He is an AIAA Distinguished Lecturer. Mr. Hoeber holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He and his family live Los Altos, California.